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To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island. [Poetic] Isled in sudden seas of light. Tennyson.

The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease.

To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure. -- Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard apparatus. -- Jackquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.…

An injury caused by jamming. [Colloq.]

To cause to sound harshly or inharmoniously; to produce discordant sounds with. Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh. Shak.

To cause a short, tremulous motion of, to cause to tremble, as by a sudden shock or blow; to shake; to shock; as, to jar the earth; to jar one's faith.

A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines.

in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood. Blue jaundice. See Cyanopathy.

is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration. S. Davidson.

To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.

To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope.

erson, object, influence, or supernatural being which is supposed to bring bad luck or to cause things to go wrong. [Slang]

To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.

To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i.

To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

A joining of causes of action or defense in civil suits or criminal prosecutions.

To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.

otion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight. Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy. Dryden. Glides the smooth cur…

joyful; also, affording or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy. Is this your joyous city Is. xxiii. 7. They all as glad as birds of joyous prime. Spenser. And joyous of our conquest early won. Dryden.